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The author is explaining the phrase 'he learned obedience through what he suffered' by comparing it to ordinary speech about someone who has mastered a discourse.
At any rate, when someone has delivered a speech extremely well, we often say, “This man truly learned from the words he spoke”—that is, by his message and his phrasing he showed with certainty that he had mastered the learning of those words.
The saying in Hebrews 6:1 is transposed.The phrase “of teaching” has been placed in the middle and assigned to everything lying alongside it, and the arrangement according to its meaning is this: not laying down again a foundation of teaching—and then, in sequence, the items set out in the enumeration concerning which the foundation of the teaching exists.